Garment-supporting belt



Mar. 5, 1929. s R 1,703,968

' GARMENT SUPPORTING BELT.

Filed Oct. 6, 1927 ZSmaehtor @i lm Q V Patented Mar. 5, 1929. l

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Application filed October 6, .1927. 'Serial No; 224,383.

My invention contemplates an improvement in belts for personal wear byeither ladies or gentlemen and contemplates espe cially a chain holdingconvenience by means of which the watch'chain, or other chain, may

besupported or suspended in an attractively neat manner. The chainholding device is located at the inner side of the belt and thereforedoes not mar the appearance of the eX- terior of the belt, and the chainholding device provides a loop through which the watch chainmay withfacility be passed for the purpose of suspendingthe chain. i

In carrying out my invention, I utilize tab in connection with the belt,which tab may be formed asan integral part of the belt, or it may beattached to the belt in suitable manner. The tab is provided with asuspending loop or slot for the watch chain and this opening ispreferably of sutiicient size to permit the spring ring of a chain topass therethrough, thus permitting the chain to be looped as well asused in single style.

My invention consists in certain novel. conibinations and arrangementsof parts as will hereinafter be more fully described and claimed. In theaccompanying drawings, I

have illustrated one complete example and.

a modified form thereof, of the physical embodiment of my inventionwherein the parrs are combined and arranged according to the best mode Ihave so far devised for the practical application of the principles ofmy invention.

Figure 1 is a View showing the inner sides of the two separated ends ofa garment supporting belt, the buckle end of the belt being providedwith the chain supporting loop of my invention;

Fig. '2 1s a View of the buckle supporting stamped from the beltmaterial;

Fig. 8 is a face View at the 1111161, side 0t the buckle end of the beltshowing a slotted tab riveted to the foldedportion of the belt;

1 as a standard type of buckle. The belt may i be for either mens wearor ladies wear; and

end of the belt with the foldfiattened out and showing the chainsupporting loop oritongue may be fashioned of, leather or fabric, or itmay be fashioned from ribbons or other ma terials that are suitableforthe purpose.

The buckle 3 is retained at an end of the belt inusual manner by meansof the fold 4 and the material of the fold is bent to forma sleeve as at5 for the cross bar 6' of the buckle.

The usual tongue or prong 7 of the buckle is passed throughthe slot.Sprovided therefor in the'belt and the material of the beltis folded onthe dotted line 9 indicated in Fig. 2. The fold of the belt'may bestitched to the belt as at 10 or secured in any other suitable manner.

In one form of my invention, the device for supporting the chain C isfashioned fromthe material of the fold 4%. In this instance, a U- shapedtongue 11 is cut or stamped out as at 12 from the material of the fold,4. and the U-' shaped tongue provides a slot 13 in the body of the beltthrough which the chain may be passed. positionedin any desired angle,as shown in the two angles of Fig 1 and'Fig. 2, and the tongue may beflexed or bent inwardly from the fold lto permit ready insertion of thechain through the slot 13in order that the chain may hang from the U-shaed tab as shown in Fig. 1; The tab is pre erably cut out from the fold 4in order that-the appearance of the belt may notice altered and forconvenience in suspending the chain beneath the belt and the tab is thusrendered invisible from the exterior of the belt.

' In some instances the tab may be attached to the fold at as indicatedin Fig. 3 and Fig. 4. In these figures, the tab 1% is provided with a;slot 15 and it is secured as by rivets 16 to the fold a at the buckleend of the belt. Asthus shown, the rivet 16 is not visiblefromtheexte'rior of the belt, nor is the slotted tab 14 visible. 6 The shapeof the slots 13 and 15 0f: the tabs may be variedfor different purposesand the shapes of the U-shaped tab 11 and of i the attachedtab'll mayalso bechanged. In some instances, it may be. desirable to stitch thetab 1% to the fold of the belt instead of I using the rivet or fastener16.

From. this descriptiontaken in connection with my drawings, it will beapparentthat the chain holdingtab may be added to the belt withoutmaterially adding to the cost of. manufactureof thebelt, and the tab maybe used or not used as desired, and yet because of its position at theinner side of the belt, it is not visible and does not alter the appear-The U-sha 'iedtongue or tab may be buckle supporting end With an innerfold 1 and a slotted chain supporting tab on said fold. i

2. A garment supporting belt having a buckle supporting end with aninner fold and aslotted U-shaped chain supporting tab par- 15 tially cutfrom said fold.

MARY STARMER.

